Rockefeller Foundation: Attempts to harness the creative forces of globalization, supporting breakthrough solutions to 21st century challenges. Through their pioneering Impact Investing Initiative, Rockefeller Foundation was an early GIIRS supporter.

USAID is an independent federal government agency that supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance.

Prudential Financial, Inc. is a financial services firm with approximately $667 billion of assets under management and has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Prudential made an investment in GIIRS through their Social Investments program. Prudential has a long tradition of making investments that support and improve communities, having established a formal program in 1976 and investing more than $1 billion dollars since. Click here to learn more about Prudential's Social Investment Program.

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and its member firms. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Click here to learn more about Deloitte's Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability practice.

Investors' Circle: The IC Network is comprised of angel investors, professional venture capitalists, foundations, family offices and others who are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy. GIIRS is Investors' Circle exclusive metrics provider.

Mission Markets: This Certified B Corp is a financial services company that operates the Impact Investment Platform supporting the social and environmental capital markets. Mission Markets' Impact Investing Platform provides socially and environmentally responsible companies, organizations, and projects with access to mission aligned capital. The Impact Investing Platform provides investors, investment advisors and 3rd party service providers with an efficient way to communicate, evaluate, invest in and monitor sustainable investment opportunities. GIIRS is Mission Markets’s preferred impact ratings partner.

The Social Venture Exchange (SVX): SVX is a local, regulated, impact-first market connecting social ventures, impact funds, and impact investors in order to catalyze new investment capital geared towards improved social and environmental outcomes. The project is an initiative of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) at MaRS, supported by Causeway Social Finance, the TMX Group Inc., and the Government of Ontario. The SVX provides an online platform with venture listings, fund listings, a resource centre, an investor collaboration tool, and financial service provider listing to facilitate effective impact investments. The SVX allows investors to share due diligence, collaborate on deals, identify high quality investment opportunities, and access screened investment opportunities and ventures with detailed information reducing the burden of due diligence. The SVX will provide ventures with increased access to capital and increased financial expertise. GIIRS is a listing requirement for all companies and funds that list on SVX.

Impact Reporting and Investment Standards, or IRIS, is a common language for describing the social and environmental performance of an organization. IRIS provides an independent and credible set of metrics for organizations to use when reporting their impact. IRIS indicators span an array of performance objectives and include specialized metrics for a range of sectors including financial services, agriculture, and energy. Whenever possible GIIRS has integrated IRIS metrics and definitions into its rating system. By using IRIS metrics, GIIRS is helping ensure that the metrics and definitions within its rating system have been vetted and accepted by the larger impact investing industry. To learn more about IRIS, click here.

CASE at Duke: A research and education center based at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the thoughtful adaptation of business expertise. CASE is working with academic and private researchers globally to create priorities for future research on the data collected by B Lab and GIIRS.

GIIRS Pioneer Funds are leading private equity and venture capital funds that make impact investments in companies in developed economies like the U.S. and Europe, as well as the emerging markets globally, and which have signed on to be the first GIIRS rated funds. See a complete list of the GIIRS Pioneer Funds, which invest in the emerging markets.